‘Skill India’ for Informal Workers: an integration through National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF)

The phenomenal size of the informal economy in India poses a challenge to the Skill India initiative. This paper is an attempt to describe how the informal sector workers can be integrated with the formal economy through recognition of their skills and how this can be facilitated by the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF), a competency based framework that focuses on learning outcomes, irrespective of whether the outcomes were achieved through formal or informal methods of learning.